| Ireland. High Court of Chancery - 1859 - 682 páginas
...assembled, and by the authority of the same, that, on every such trial, the jury sworn to 1ry the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter put in issue upon soch indictment or information ; and shall not be required or directed by the Court... | |
| David Rowland - 1859 - 606 páginas
...their verdict upon the whole matter in issue ; — it was declared and enacted that the jury might give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter in issue ; and should not be required or directed by the judge to find the defendant guilty, merely... | |
| Hugo Meyer - 1860 - 308 páginas
...©treitigïeiten in ber ^rariê burфfeète, beïtarirte alS befteljcnbeê 5Яеф1 golgenbeè1): „that the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue upon the indictment or information and shall not be required or directed by the court or judge... | |
| William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 780 páginas
...libels. And it declares and enacts that on every trial of an indictment or information for a libel the jury may give a general verdict of guilty, or not guilty, upon the whole matter in issue, and shall not be required or directed by the judge to find the defendant guilty merely on... | |
| William Selwyn - 1861 - 874 páginas
...whole matter in issue; it was, by "Mr. Fox's Libel Act," 32 Geo. III. c. 60, enacted and declared, that the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue, and .shall not be required or directed by the court to find the defendant guilty, merely... | |
| Charles Knight - 1861 - 622 páginas
...improvement of the law known as Mr. Fox's Libel Bill, by which was established the right of juries to give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon the indictment. This Bill was carried in the House of Commons in the Session of 1791,... | |
| Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1862 - 660 páginas
...government. After reciting that doubts had arisen, it declared and enacted that on every such trial, the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon the indictment or information, and shall not be required or directed by the court... | |
| John McNab (Barrister-at-law.) - 1865 - 672 páginas
...making or publishing any libel, on the plea of not guilty pleaded, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue in such action, indictment, or information, and shall not be required or directed by the... | |
| Charles Knight - 1865 - 946 páginas
...improvement of the law known as Mr. Fox's Libel Bill, by which was established the right of juries to give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon the indictment. This Bill had been lost in the previous Session through the opposition... | |
| William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1866 - 780 páginas
...libels. And it declare« and enacts that on every trial of an indictment or information for a libel the jury may give a general verdict of guilty, or not guilty, upon the whole matter in issue, and shall not be required or directed by the judge to find the defendant guilty merely on... | |
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